The crash report is usually not admitted into evidence at a Georgia personal-injury trial in the way many people expect. Although it guides insurers and investigators, the written report and...
Yes. The driver who struck you from behind is allowed to claim that your own conduct caused or contributed to the crash, and Georgia law gives that argument real teeth...
A driver qualification file, often called a DQ file, is the set of records a motor carrier must keep to document that a commercial driver was properly screened and qualified...
More than one driver can absolutely share responsibility for a single Georgia crash. The state's fault system is built to split blame across everyone who contributed, assigning each a percentage...
Driving beyond the federal cap on daily driving time is a safety violation, and when a fatigued trucker who exceeded that limit causes a collision, the breach can become a...
A citation issued to the other driver helps a fault claim, but it does not settle it. In Georgia a traffic ticket reflects an officer's judgment at the scene, not...
Fatigue leaves no skid mark, so proving it usually means assembling circumstantial evidence into a coherent picture: a driver who had been working too long, records that show it, and...
Responsibility for a crash that happens during an improper pass in Georgia generally falls on the driver who attempted the maneuver. A pass is "illegal" when it breaks one of...
Handing the keys to a driver the owner knew was dangerous can expose the owner to a claim in Georgia under the doctrine of negligent entrustment. This theory makes the...
Responsibility for a cargo-related crash does not always stop with the driver and carrier. A shipper or the party that loaded the freight can share liability when its own conduct...